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Fusion or Californium?
Brian Naranjo of UCLA reported that the fusion spectrum published by Taleyarkhan et. al. is in fact the spectrum of Californium. Taleyarkhan's reply states that there are significant differences between his fusion spectrum and a Californium spectrum. However, in a preprint published in ArXiv Naranjo shows that Taleyarkhan omitted the channel 9 data of his fusion spectrum and that he used a different gain when he measured the Californium spectrum. These "manipulations" scale the y-axis and x-axis respectively such that when they are considered the fusion spectrum and the Californium spectrum look remarkably similar.